Heel and toe clearance estimation for gait analysis using wireless inertial sensors

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 12 PART2, 2012, Pages 3162-3168

  Mariani, Benoit ^a   Rochat, Stephane ^b   Büla, Christophe J ^b   Aminian, Kamiar ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Foot clearance; inertial sensors; spatiotemporal parameters; walking assessment; wearable device

Indexed keywords

FOOT CLEARANCE; INERTIAL SENSOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL PARAMETERS; WALKING ASSESSMENT; WEARABLE DEVICES;

DATA FUSION; ESTIMATION; SENSORS;

INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; FEMALE; FOOT CLEARANCE; GAIT; HEEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MODEL; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSOR; SIGNAL DETECTION; TOE; VALIDATION STUDY; WALKING; WALKING SPEED; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GAIT; HEEL; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; TOES; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84868091615     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2216263     Document Type: Article

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